Frank Palermo

Male, Person

1914 –

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Who is Frank Palermo?

Frank "Blinky" Palermo was an organized crime figure who surreptitiously owned prize-fighters and fixed fights best known for fixing the Jake LaMotta-Billy Fox fight in 1947. An associate of the Philadelphia crime family, Palermo also ran the City of Brotherly Love's biggest numbers racket.

Blinky's partner was Mafiosi Frankie Carbo, a soldier in New York's Lucchese Family who had been a gunman with Murder, Inc.

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1914

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on July 23, 2013

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